On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Tom Panning wrote:

> On Friday 22 March 2002 05:32 pm, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >    I doubt there's much benefit to running a monitor at that
> > high of a refresh.  I don't think most people can see flicker above
> > 85Hz.  Additionally, as the frequencies get higher, things just
> > get fuzzier, so for the most part, that statement in the montior's
> > manual is BS.  Image quality does not get better as the refresh
> > rate goes up.  Both the monitor and the video card will be taxed
> > at their extents.
> 
> Actually, I want to do this because in a couple months I'm going to do stereo 
> graphics with X. So in order to get 60Hz per eye, I'll have to get 120Hz 
> overall.

For Stereo you may want to use an interlaced mode.
This assumes that each eye want a 1280x512 picture, so is actually
only as fast as a 1280x1024@60Hz non-interlaced mode.

Note that some drivers/cards don't support interlaced modes (my i815 for 
instance).

If I've correctly translated the output from the GTF spreadsheet, this
is the nearest to a standard 1280x1024 mode with 60Hz frames/120Hz fields:
Modeline "GTF1280x1024_120i"  112.889 1280 1496 1632 1712 1024 1090 1096 1099 
Interlace -HSync +Vsync

It is a whisker too fast for my monitor so I haven't tested it properly,
but it does appear to do what it is supposed to.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

_______________________________________________
Xpert mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Reply via email to